fors, Udnaes, Fagerita, and Simla. Of thefe the largeit is that
of Skantze, which is 8400 feet in length.
In many parts the bed of the rivers have been deepened, and
the rock blown away under water by means of machines invented
by the celebrated Turnberg, and Amplified by Alftraem.
The iluices, which are twenty-five in number, are all 100 feet
long, and 72 broad, faced with walls of granite.. Of the 25
iluices. eleven were finiihed; and it was. conject ured, that if the:
proprietors could advance the neceflary money, the whole might
be completed in four years.
September 23. For the purpofe of vifitihg the ieveral parts of
this navigation, we made an agreeable expedition from Stroem-
fholm to Dalecarlia. We had a pleaiant drive from the palace
through final! groves of oak, fkirted by a fmall lake, which is.:
joined by the laft cut, and the twenty-fifth fluke,- to the Freden
thence through a lefs agreeable and more open country to Wef-
teros 1 the high fpires of the cathedral riling before us, and pre-.
fenting a pifturefque objedt from the adjacent country.
In proceeding from Weileros, which I have defcribed in my
former tour, and to which defcription I have nothing further to
add, we had fome delightful views of the Maeler, beautifully
iprinkled with iilands, tome bare, and fome prettily wooded. We
changed horfes at Kalbaeck, on the river which forms part of the
canal, which we eroded over a wooden bridge, under which
the current flowed with great rapidity. Its channel has been
x deepened:
deepened by blowing up the rocks under water, and nearly
finiihed for the paffage of boats ; thence coafting the river as it
winded through the valley, its navigation occafionally obitrudted
with ihoals which were deepening, we arrived at Skantze, Here
we alighted, and called at the director's houfe, bearing as our
paflport the letter from Senator Sp'arie. Unfortunately the di-
redtor was not at home, and it rained very hard. We contrived,
however, to examine the works carrying on between Skantzen
and Traengfors, which are the largeit and the moil difficult of
the whole plan. The length of the cut is 8,400 feet, and the
depth to be excavated in fome places is not lefs than 80 feet, of
which there is much rock. The perpendicular fall of water in
this cut is 128 feet eight inches, which is to be broken by
eight iluices, of which four were nearly finiihed. Parts of the
cut, which is excavated in the fand, are fupported by walls of
hewn granite,
We had propofed taking a boat juit above the cut now forming
at Skantze, and afcending the canal as far as the iluices of
Alfatra; but as the rain poured down with great violence, we
continued our journey in our carriage, coafted the feveral lakes
and waters which form the inland navigation, and paffed the numerous
cuts and iluices, fome of which we examined. We
changed horfes at Stoltorp and Rhamnstz, and' reached Nes
with an intention of croffing over to Viriboe, where we were af-
fured of an hofpitable reception at a houfe belonging to Baron
Silverfchiolde. But ws did not reach Nasfs until night had fet
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